Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickled at the mere prospect, Elmer posed last week for his portrait. From barn sides, billboards all over the U. S. his grin will hint that nobody ought to miss the new (and cheaper) wonders of the New York World's Fair. In real life the man on the poster, painted by New York Artist Howard Scott, is 50-year-old Leslie Ostrander, actor and professional model. But to everyone he will be just Elmer...
...election, went back to his shack. Emerging as a Congressional candidate, Mr. Frees stood on his head while he made campaign speeches, promised, if elected, to do backflips up the Capitol steps. His resounding advice to Congressman Schaefer: "If he doesn't play golf I think he should ought to learn. In case fishing was bad, he could pass his time away easier without having to worry so much about something...
...leader should allow an antipathy for what he conceives to be the red tendencies of C.I.O. and H.S.U. to stand in the way. He has his chance to strengthen the largest and most effective efforts being made here for peace, yet he prefers to serve a splintering role. Someone ought to tell him about the bundle of sticks parable: you can break them separately but not together. If he objects to the United Front on domestic matters, that is his privilege, but this is an issue which demands cooperative action. United we stand at peace; divided we fall...
...Morrison in a lengthy editorial branched out into broader aspects of the Taylor controversy: "Protestantism is the majority faith in the United States. The so-called interfaith movement derived its initiative from Protestantism. The movement arose be cause Protestants said: We who are the dominant faith in American democracy ought to exercise tolerance toward Catholics and Jews...
Last week, March 18, I was plenty tickled with the way you wrote your article about me being spanked by the SEC. I expect maybe I ought to be scaired but it didn't hurt a bit. The letter the SEC wrote me was just a plain courteous letter, with no threatening and no cuss words, telling me that I had violated the law in advertiseing for a partner in a Public newspaper...